John Joseph
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If you want finger grooves do it right. Send Herret's and outline of your hand and they'll carve a perfect fit.
The only grooved grips that work for me are the rubber Hogue grips for the sp101. I've bought a few other hogue grooved k frame wood grips and ended up reshaping every one. Just bought a gp100 that came with grooved hogues and they are going bye bye as soon as i find replacements. My gen 3 glock 19 is tolerable but I'm not a fan. I absolutely hate the pachmayr grooved grips that have came with multiple used revolvers I've bought, those get replaced asap.
Whatever I can find that's not a Pachmayr gripper.What do you normally replace them with?
I just bought a Smith and Wesson 629 Mountain Gun in .44 mag which will have some pretty stout recoil.
I want to order some new Hogue Tamer grips for it but am debating whether to get standard with finger grooves or non-finger grooves, which one would be better to reduce recoil?
Been there, done that with a 44 Magnum. (Ruger Redhawk 4.2" bbl, so pretty comparable to the Mtn. Gun-other than weight.)
The original Hogue grips were crap. First thing I tried were Pachmayr Decelerator grips with the finger grooves. They're thin, so you can get your hands all the way around the gun. (The Redhawk, like the 629, has the full size traditional grip frame, as opposed to the post type grip on the Super Redhawk and GP100.) But I've always had trouble getting a shooting grip when grabbing the gun and presenting from the holster, so my first shot is usually inaccurate.
Next thing I tried were the Pachmayr Presentation grips. These are similar to traditional wood grips. No finger grooves. I like that part. I feel like a get a better purchase on the gun, even though it's more difficult to get a wrap around grip with my support hand. Shooting one-handed is more of a challenge. The biggest problem I found with the Presentation grips was that the empty case in the 4 o'clock position would, more often than not, hit the grip on the way out of the cylinder. Subsequently, the case would drop back, under the ejector star and lock up the gun. In cold weather, with gloves, it was virtually impossible to get the case out. The speed loader and loaded rounds cleared the grip no problem; it was just the empty case and only the one in that one spot. I eventually went back to the grooved grips. Not the best, but I haven't had an empty case jump the ejector star since.
No, they were the Hogue Monogrip. However, I have shot a Redhawk 44 with Hogue Tamer grips and if you blindfolded me, and all I had to go on was fit and feel, I doubt I could tell you which was the Hogue Tamer and which was the Pachmayr Decelerator. Possibly, the stippling on the Hogue might be a slight advantage. I would most likely choose the Tamer over the Presentation, just due to the case extraction issues.Where the original grips the Hogue Tamer Tamer grips?
I guess I’m the outlier on this one. I like finger groves.